User blog comment:Dante-Must-Die-Mode/Devil May Cry 5 Protagonist Choice: Dante, Nero or... Sparda?/@comment-78.243.215.52-20150622213450/@comment-78.243.215.52-20150622231028

http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/Devil-May-Cry-Series/Hiroyuki-Kobayashi-answers-the-fanbase/td-p/9603107

We don't know what happened to him. Vergil is a fan favorite, he can't die easily and he just has been defeated : said by Mundus.